News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-28

with them at the next and all succeed
ing meetings. Following is the pro
gramme: Secretary's report; music
Miss Healey; reading of 9th chapter
of ''0ur Mutual Friend" by Misses
Fitch and Boutwell,. Recess. Duet
Mrs. Churchill and Miss Healey; Sc
lection, Miss Williams black board
study in pronunciation song, Miss
| Hall.
BY request of many citizens. and
in accordance with the statute in such
cases, made and provided, ball play
ing in the public streets of Morris
,, vile is hereby prohibited. All good
citizens will take due notice and gov
ern themselves accordingly. Per order
of the Selectmen of Morristown.
Harper's Weekly of April 23d has
likeness of Rev. q. A. Gates, for
merly principal of the Academy here.
Mr.. Gates was popular instructor
and pleasant citizen when here, and
we are glad to note his rapid progress
in public favor. We clip the follow
ing from Ha1per's Weekly, knowing
it will be read with much interest by
the citizens of this place and VI
cinity -
REV. GEORGE A. GATES.
The Rev. Geo. A. Gates, the new Pres
ident of Iowa College. has been for six
years pastor i'm MOntclair. n. j. He is
man of broad aud thorough scholar
ship, who has distinguished himself as a
close and accurate student as well as an
able and inspiring preacher. His minis
try has been in community of rare cul-
ture, and his ability to reach and impress
thoughtful minds has been already fully
demonstrated.
Mr.. Gates was born in 1861. in Top
sham, VT. He prepared for college at
St. Johnsbury in the same State. and in
1869 entered Dartmouth College. During
his first year he divided the first rank in
the class with another, but after that
poor health compelled him to be content
with lower position, although he grad
uated among the highest in his class, and
was even in those days recognized as a
man of conspicuous ability. On leaving
college he became principal of an acade-
my at Morrisville, VT, and remained
dover Theological Seminary he went
abroad and was for long time under the
instruction of the ablest theologians and
philosophers of Germany. Godet at
Neuchatel, Christlieb at Bonn, and LotZe
at Gottingen were the men to whom he
was most indebted. In 1880, when the
First Congregational Church at Montclair
sent off a colony to form new church,
Mr.. Gates was called to the pastorate.
During his years of service as a pastor
he has not only endeared himself to his
own parish, but is generally regarded as
one of the most promising men i'll the vi
ciuity of New York.
Iowa College, which has called Mr..
Gates to its presidency, is one of the
most prominent and promising of all the
colleges in the West. 1t is probably the
largest and most influential institution of
the kind in the country west of the Mis-
sissippi. 1t may very properly be called
the Dartmouth of the interior. Its fac
ulty numbers is, and among them are
some men of national reputation. The
last catalogue shows 43i students. of
whom 1877 are in the collegiate depart
ment. 1t lost all its buildings and appli-
ances in 1882 by cyclone, but that dis
aster so reused the enthusiasm of help
fulness of its alumni and friends that it is
now better equipped than before. 1t has
not adopted the dOrmitOry system, and
in that respect is like the German univer-
stiles. Its scientific museum is of eXcep-
tional value and size, ranking above that
possessed by most Eastern colleges. Its
last president was Rev. Geo. F. MagOun,
DID,. who resigned two years ago. but
still retains the prOfessorship of Mental
and Moral Science. The State of which
this is the leading educational institution
is one of the most rapidly growing as
well as one of the most intelligent in the
Union. It is the Massachusetts of the
West. A college in the midst of such a
population, with the wealth of one of the
most progressive of all the States behind
it, is sure of a great and prosperous flu
ture. His friends predict that under the
presidency of Mr.. Gates, Iowa College
will not only continue, but surpass its al
ready honorable record.